Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

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Far beneath the polar night, the front of Antarctica’s most feared ice stream is shuddering with a new kind of warning signal ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...

An ice covered rock formation is reflected in the waters at Pleneau Island in Antarctica on Nov. 24. ANTARCTICA — The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn’t mean it ...

A member of the Lynch Lab with a group of penguins in Antarctica. Credit: The Lynch Lab If you’re lucky enough to visit Antarctica, you’ll probably aim to snag a classic photo—a colony of penguins, ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ...